Abstract Processes of public engagement in decision-making and research are increasingly discussed as ways addressing democratic deficits high-income countries. In this paper, we explore why these processes involvement the UK have been less successfully incorporated into social security policymaking aimed at out-of-work by drawing a comparison with health policy, sphere which now become orthodo...

We describe our contribution to the SemEval task on Frame-Semantic Structure Extraction. Unlike most previous systems described in literature, ours is based on dependency syntax. We also describe a fully automatic method to add words to the FrameNet lexical database, which gives an improvement in the recall of frame detection.

The majority of research examining infants' decontextualized word knowledge comes from studies in which words and pictures are presented simultaneously. However, comprehending utterances about unseen objects is a hallmark of language. Do infants demonstrate decontextualized absent object knowledge early in the second year of life? Further, to what extent do words evoke strictly prototypical rep...

This paper explains the principles of dependency analysis by reduction and its correspondence to the notions of dependency and dependency tree. The explanation is illustrated by examples from Czech, a language with a relatively high degree of word-order freedom. The paper sums up the basic features of methods of dependency syntax. The method serves as a basis for the verification (and explanati...

p s t m w t n p a g e r t A procedure to calculate probability limits for the inference that the absence of a taxon from a woodrat (Neotoma) midden implies bsence from the paleolandscape uses paired samples of modern egetation communities and paired samples of paleocommunities. ssumptions are: (1) each member of a sample pair is an indeendent measure of the same vegetation assemblage; (2) behav...

We address the question of which syntactic representation is best suited for role-semantic analysis of English in the FrameNet paradigm. We compare systems based on dependencies and constituents, and a dependency syntax with a rich set of grammatical functions with one with a smaller set. Our experiments show that dependency-based and constituent-based analyzers give roughly equivalent performa...

Copula constructions are problematic in the syntax of most languages. The paper describes three different dependency syntactic methods for handling copula constructions: function head, content head and complex label analysis. Furthermore, we also propose a POS-based approach to copula detection. We evaluate the impact of these approaches in computational parsing, in two parsing experiments for ...